HUNDREDS of GCSE students were yesterday celebrating another success in their exams.
This Is Jersey
Daily Archives: August 22, 2008
Jersey roars home GB’s flying doctor
FORMER Jersey doctor Tim Brabants has won Olympic gold for Great Britain.
Beach soccer élite in action
THE finest beach soccer players in England are in Jersey this weekend for the Nuts TV Beach Soccer Super Tour final – and will also take on a team from Jersey.
Clayton is still on the Road to Wimbledon
JERSEY tennis junior Scott Clayton has again performed well to reach the semi-finals of Road to Wimbledon.
In Gomy we trust (or so he tells us)
FOR some time now there has been a player in the league who despite an unshakeable belief in his own abilities has consistently been unable to show any objective evidence that his outlandish claims were nothing more than grandiose delusional rantings.
Into the valley of death
FINANCE worker Danny Martin is training for a 250-mile sponsored cycle ride in Death Valley in the USA in November to raise funds for an organisation that clears mines from conflict zones around the world.
Tough times for Collins Stewart
THE chief executive of Collins Stewart, Joel Plasco, visited the firm’s offices in Jersey and Guernsey last week to speak to staff.
St Helier is fast becoming a bland concrete jungle
From Peter Green.
IT has saddened me to read so many letters recently in the JEP from visitors to Jersey who felt compelled to tell of their disappointment of various aspects of their holidays.
A threat of constitutional disruption
IT is undeniable that the present investigation into alleged historical child abuse at Haut de la Garenne and elsewhere has cast a dark shadow over Jersey and its people. However, in spite of what some critics seem determined to assert neither the great majority of Islanders nor our political and legal establishments can be damned […]
No sex please – I’m a batter
SPINSTERS and bachelors. I begin this week’s comment with these two words because I know that they mean very different things depending on whether you’re male or female.